Another Monster House

[james t kirk]

^^^ Spoken like true suburbanites.

I'd sooner eat glass than live in a big McMansion in suburbia. No thanks.

 

[TeeJay]

I'm sure there are other zoning things that can be used. There are height restrictions. Footprint restrictions. My neighbourhood has been successful in keeping idiocy out.

Height restrictions are very general and would certainly not help the previous poster with his sun issue
Medium density can be anything from a townhome to a 6 story building up here in my area

Footprint and setback would be far more effective at fighting a monster home I would think

But in all these cases these restrictions are for the benefit of the city really
The guy who lost his sun has no rights whatsoever

Think this way, you have a great pool + deck etc
I go plant a row of tall trees
There ain't shit you could complain about even if I ruined your view and blocked your sun

 

[fluffy]

I find the old homes more disturbing. The narrow gables and the round gable vents. The proportions seem wrong. The look like a bunch of missile silos.

Those homes don't look old to me. They look like modern imitations of Victorian homes.

 

[Occasionally]

^^^ Spoken like true suburbanites.

I'd sooner eat glass than live in a big McMansion in suburbia. No thanks.

What's wrong with living in the burbs in a nice spcicous home, with a driveway and a front and back yard?

In the burbs, you also don't get weird shit like this thread is about where someone builds an oddball home. In Toronto, you get all kinds of stuff like that. 70 year old rows homes one street, then a huge 40 floor condo down the block. And in the burbs, most homes are kept pretty neat and tidy. In Toronto, you can get old ass neighbourhoods with homes which are falling apart and everyone on the block is too lazy and cheap to fix up their place or at least get a new coat of paint.

 

[canada-man]

What's wrong with living in the burbs in a nice spcicous home, with a driveway and a front and back yard?

In the burbs, you also don't get weird shit like this thread is about where someone builds an oddball home. In Toronto, you get all kinds of stuff like that. 70 year old rows homes one street, then a huge 40 floor condo down the block. And in the burbs, most homes are kept pretty neat and tidy. In Toronto, you can get old ass neighbourhoods with homes which are falling apart and everyone on the block is too lazy and cheap to fix up their place or at least get a new coat of paint.

suburbs are isolating and depressing

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200503/teens-suburban-blues

 

[Occasionally]

suburbs are isolating and depressing

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200503/teens-suburban-blues

And downtown is a concrete jungle, homeless people asking for quarters and terrible air quality.

Have fun inhaling endless taxi fumes and those disgusting sewer grate fumes you only get downtown.

 

[SkyRider]

Have fun inhaling endless taxi fumes and those disgusting sewer grate fumes you only get downtown.

Yeah, but the "patio people" love it.

 

[canada-man]

And downtown is a concrete jungle, homeless people asking for quarters and terrible air quality.

Have fun inhaling endless taxi fumes and those disgusting sewer grate fumes you only get downtown.

air quality is improving. smog days are in the past. cars today are cleaner than 30 years ago.

 

[radagast]

Those homes don't look old to me. They look like modern imitations of Victorian homes.

Agreed. Those have been built within the last 20 years, by somebody who at least had a modicum of historical and architectural sense, and who knew how to blend new builds into an old neighbourhood.

That monstrosity on the left? *tears*